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Friday, April 18, 2008

Apples and Pears - pg. 100

Sweetbrier agrees, wrily, that no phalanstery anything like Fourier's is possible without an Erhonian revolution, canceling machines. To return movement to walking, horseback riding, and the true dance. To return music to the instrument and occasion. To return the casual to the deilberate, the planned, the expected. To return reading to daylight and the lamp. To return love to passion as it arises. To return work to communal duty, to the sense of usefulness. To have the beginning and end of everything kept in sight and in the discourse of the whole phalanstery. To take happiness from money and restore it to the harmony of work and its reward, ambition and its achievement. To put mind and hand in concert. To reorganize society after its disastrous dispersal by train, automobile, airplane.

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